The #GR24Amaldi16 art gallery is now online! Some really amazing pieces on display - I especially like the papier mâché and clay one by Riccardo Buscicchio (And of course all of @theastrophoenix.bsky.social's art but does that need to be said?) 🐡🔭🧪 uofgravity.github.io/amaldi-art/

If you've taken the trains in the UK, remember the three Ss. See it, Say it, Sorted.

A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip. Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted

After watching the Devil's Plan, I am now hooked one Nine Man's Morris/Mills. So simple but so deep.

This is insidious.

Had the great pleasure of visiting Rare studio earlier in the year - it felt like I was thrown back into the worlds of games like Banjo and Kazooie!

40 years of @rare.co.uk. From devoted Rare gamers to single-series stalwarts, we want to show our appreciation for anyone who's visited even just one of our worlds. For keeping an assorted ragtag of creatives working magic in the Midlands, only two words will do: THANK YOU 💙💛

BREAKING: At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks while waiting to receive food aid in southern Gaza's Rafah. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/img1q1

Yes, really enjoyed speaking at UoL today and meeting Soheb! Totally going to roll him into a tent for @emfcamp.bsky.social next year with his amazing art! :D

Also won a grant to fund the next stages of my art business (and an overdue computer).

Fantastic day today - Had some excellent talks at the University of Leicester. Featuring @liedra.net on video game ethics, and Prof. Yukun Lai on using ML techniques to reconstruct 3D information from 2D images. Also had the privilege to present my work on sci-art communication! Many ideas shared!

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

Conferencing is always tricky but EAS has been great so far. Volunteering and Chairing done so far... Tomorrow, I'll be speaking!

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

Hello, hallo, hola and g'day @bsky.app! We're a collection of telescopes, software agents, and actual humans that make up the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) network and collaboration! Follow us to keep up with our adventures in transient astronomy

Eid Mubarak friends

Public figures, including Steve Coogan and Nadia Sawalha, joined an 18-hour-long vigil in London to read aloud the names of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.

If chess.com could stop changing its UI every 5 minutes, that'd be swell...

Yes I know… #BlackHoleWeek is over 😞 but that won't stop me from yapping about black holes! 😂 Here’s a set of infographics highlighting some of the key findings by scientists that helped us get to our understanding of black holes today! ✨ #Astrophysics #BlackHoles

Ice is fully working 🧊 You choose: walk only 1 space and don't crack the ice, or walk more and crack all the ice you pass through (except the one you currently are). Walking on cracked ice works the same, but it will transform the tile into water! #indiegamedev #unreal #steam #turnbase #boardgame

Animation of #Mars during its Noachian Period, 4100-3700 MYa. The period is characterised by high rates of meteorite impacts, volcanism and possibly abundant surface water. However, the water is thought to have been localized rather than spanning the planet ... #Blender #sciart #spaceart 1/3

Wanna do some cool astronomy from the comfort of your computer? Check out this project. Many minds (myself included) worked hard to make this project possible. We need your help to take it a step further. With just a few clicks you can contribute to real research.

Massive power outage has hit Spain, Portugal, France and other EU countries. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Just watch. 😞 Every day I am sickened that our government supports this.

Friendly reminder to scientists/science communicators - the images you share (and thus grow followers, trust, credibility upon) are 100-fold better when you use alt-text because they are more accessible to broader audiences. Want to go one step further? Attribute the source! It's the BlueSky way.

How is a health official so detached from reality?

‘If you tell lies that cause violence, you are responsible in-part for that violence.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why we have stopped saying ‘lying is bad’, after a report into misinformation surrounding the summer riots.

Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience, and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.

Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population reut.rs/42tFzSo

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

Some images taken from the partial eclipse. Simply took these with phone through my £1 2015 eclipse glasses!

And again if you're celebrating today (myself included)

Eid Mubarak to friends celebrating today

“I felt they were going to kill me, not just to punish me. … I felt I would die." Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Balla recounts being attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya, in the occupied West Bank

I am getting really excited for the GR Amaldi meeting in July. Lots of plans are coming together! Abstract submission deadline is Friday 21 March Registration is open. We will have a free Early Career Workshop before the main meeting, but places are limited iop.eventsair.com/gr24-amaldi16/ ⚛️🧪🔭🛰️☄️

Wanna do some cool astronomy from the comfort of your computer? Check out this project. Many minds (myself included) worked hard to make this project possible. We need your help to take it a step further. With just a few clicks you can contribute to real research.

I impulse bought another 3D printer (3rd one) because it was heavily discounted. I do not regret this decision. It is happiness. It's now set up, giving my Ender 5 company (fully repaired, upgraded, and calibrates).

With so much to doomscroll right now, here’s a gentle reminder that I have an artist starter pack so you can fill your day with beautiful creations to offset the doom and gloom. 💙🦋

Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Anyways, Hamed is not a scam, he’s my friend, and he and his family are trying to survive the genocide until they raise enough money to be able to cross the Rafah border. Please help him if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-ha...

Looks like there's a two year postdoc going in Dublin for a legal historian (and/or historian of law? books?) in Medieval Irish Law on Prof. Fangzhe Qiu's "Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland" project, #medievalsky!! www.findapostdoc.com/search/Job-D...

Hello UK folks: if you’re looking to preorder books, Waterstones is running a preorder sale this weekend, and my upcoming book on all the ways the stars have taught us about the cosmos is a part of it! 🧪🔭📚📖👩🏼‍🔬 www.waterstones.com/book/forty-w...

Erm. We only went and fucking won 😳

Hosted a Blender workshop yesterday to introduce colleagues to basic modelling techniques and basic simulations, Here's what I made during the demo (very basic, running on my work laptop).

Royal Mail is beyond help. Their strategy to not deliver packages and then gaslighting you to think they made an attempt is poor. What a shambolic excuse for a service.

omg when your vision comes to life 🤩

The latest DB Daima episode... Holy forkin shirtballs

We are at 98% please let this thing reach it's goal so I can shut it down without feeling like a quitter.

Come work with me at Macquarie University in Sydney! Job ad is live on AAS: aas.org/jobregister/...

We are inviting institutions with a strong track record in astronomy education to apply to become an OAE Center or OAE Node. Interested institutions (universities, planetariums, museums, etc.) should submit a Letter of Intent by 31 March 2025. More details here: astro4edu.org/news/2k738fi/